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Page 1 of 13 MATTEO COLOMBO Curriculum Vitae Areas of Specialisation Philosophy of Science Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science Moral Psychology Areas of Competence Epistemology Philosophy of the Social Sciences Psychology of Judgement and Decision-Making Contact TiLPS, Tilburg University PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg The Netherlands Tel.: + 31 (0) 628271058 Email: [email protected] Skype name: mteocol Website: http://mteocolphi.wordpress.com/ ACCADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2015 - Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS) Department of Philosophy, Tilburg University Assistant Professor Autumn 2014 Department of History and Philosophy of Science University of Pittsburgh Visiting Scholar 2012 2015 Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics, and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS) Tilburg University Postdoctoral Fellow EDUCATION 2008 2012 University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh PhD Philosophy 2007 2008 London School of Economics, London MSc Philosophy and History of Science 2005 2007 Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano MA Cognitive Science and Philosophy 2002 2005 Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli BA with Honours Philosophy Additional Training 2014-15 Tilburg University University Teaching Qualification (Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs BKO) 2010 Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin Summer School Bounded Rationality: Foundations of an Interdisciplinary Decision Theory 2009 Technical University of Denmark, Lingby Summer School Mathematical Modelling, Nonlinear Dynamics, Stochastic and Complex Systems

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MATTEO COLOMBO

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Specialisation Philosophy of Science

Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science

Moral Psychology

Areas of Competence Epistemology

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Psychology of Judgement and Decision-Making

Contact

TiLPS, Tilburg University

PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg

The Netherlands

Tel.: + 31 (0) 628271058

Email: [email protected]

Skype name: mteocol

Website: http://mteocolphi.wordpress.com/

ACCADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2015 - Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS)

Department of Philosophy, Tilburg University

Assistant Professor

Autumn 2014 Department of History and Philosophy of Science

University of Pittsburgh

Visiting Scholar

2012 – 2015 Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics, and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS)

Tilburg University

Postdoctoral Fellow

EDUCATION

2008 – 2012 University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

PhD Philosophy

2007 – 2008 London School of Economics, London

MSc Philosophy and History of Science

2005 – 2007 Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano

MA Cognitive Science and Philosophy

2002 – 2005 Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli

BA with Honours Philosophy

Additional Training

2014-15 Tilburg University

University Teaching Qualification (Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs – BKO)

2010 Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin

Summer School Bounded Rationality: Foundations of an Interdisciplinary

Decision Theory

2009 Technical University of Denmark, Lingby

Summer School Mathematical Modelling, Nonlinear Dynamics, Stochastic

and Complex Systems

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PUBLICATIONS

Authored books

(1) Wright, C., Potochnik, A., & Colombo, M. (under contract). An Introduction to Scientific

Reasoning, Routledge.

Edited books and volumes

(3) Colombo, M., Irvine, E., & Stapleton, M. (under contract). Andy Clark and his critics.

Oxford University Press.

(2) Sprevak, M., & Colombo, M. (Eds.) (under contract). Routledge Handbook of the

Computational Mind, Routledge.

(1) Colombo, M., Gervais, R., & Sprenger, J. (Eds.) (forthcoming). Objectivity in Science.

Special issue of Synthese.

Papers

(29) Colombo, M. (2017). Social motivation in computational neuroscience. Or if brains are

prediction machines, then the Humean theory of motivation is false. In J. Kiverstein (Ed.)

Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the Social Mind, Routledge.

(28) Colombo, M. (2016). Animal grieving and human mourning Commentary on King on

Animal Grief. Animal Sentience 2016.110

(27) Colombo, M., & Wright, C. (2016). Explanatory Pluralism: An Unrewarding Prediction

Error for Free Energy Theorists. Brain and Cognition

(26) Colombo, M. (2016). Experimental Philosophy of Explanation Rising. The case for a

plurality of concepts of explanation. Cognitive Science.

(25) Colombo, M., Postma, M., & Sprenger, J. (2016). Explanatory Judgment, Probability, and

Abductive Inference. In Papafragou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman, D., & Trueswell, J.C. (Eds.)

(2016). Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin,

TX: Cognitive Science Society, 432-437.

(24) Colombo, M., Bucher, L., & Inbar, Y. (2015). Explanatory Judgment, Moral Offense, and

Value-Free Science. An Empirical Study. The Review of Philosophy and Psychology.

doi: 10.1007/s13164-015-0282-z

(23) Colombo, M. (2016). Why Build a Virtual Brain? Large-Scale Neural Simulations as Jump

Start for Cognitive Computing. Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial

Intelligence.

(22) Colombo, M. (2015). Why Build a Virtual Brain? Large-scale Neural Simulations as Test-

bed for Artificial Computing Systems. In D.C. Noelle, R. Dale, A.S. Warlaumont, J.

Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C.D. Jennings, & P.P. Maglio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual

Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, 429-

34.

(21) Colombo, M., & Hartmann, S. (2015). Bayesian Cognitive Science, Unification, and

Explanation. The British Journal for Philosophy of Science. doi: 10.1093/bjps/axv036

(20) Colombo, M. (2015). For a Few Neurons More. Tractability and Neurally-Informed

Economic Modelling. The British Journal for Philosophy of Science, 66: 713-736. doi:

10.1093/bjps/axu013

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(19) Colombo, M., Hartmann, S., & van Iersel, R. (2015). Models, Mechanisms, and Coherence.

The British Journal for Philosophy of Science, 66: 181-212. doi: 10.1093/bjps/axt043

(18) Colombo, M., Stankevicius, A., & Seriès, P. (2014). Benefits of social vs. non-social

feedback on learning and generosity. Results from the Tipping Game. Frontiers in

Psychology – Cultural Psychology, 5: 1154. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01154

(17) Colombo, M., & Sprenger, J. (2014). The Predictive Mind and Chess-Playing. A Reply to

Shand (2014). Analysis, 74: 603-608. doi: 10.1093/analys/anu081

(16) Colombo, M. (2014). Neural Representationalism, the Hard Problem of Content, and

Vitiated Verdicts. A Reply To Hutto & Myin (2013). Phenomenology and the Cognitive

Sciences, 13: 257-274. doi: 10.1007/s11097-014-9350-6

(15) Colombo, M. (2014). Explaining Social Norm Compliance. A Plea for Neural

Representations. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 13: 217-238. doi:

10.1007/s11097-013-9296-0

(14) Colombo, M. (2014). Deep and Beautiful. The Reward Prediction Error Hypothesis of

Dopamine. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 45:

57-67. doi:10.1016/j.shpsc.2013.10.006

(13) Colombo, M. (2014). Caring, the Emotions, and Social Norm Compliance. Journal of

Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, 7: 33-47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/npe0000015

(12) Colombo, M. (2014). Two Neurocomputational Building Blocks of Social Norm

Compliance. Biology and Philosophy, 29: 71-88. doi: 10.1007/s10539-013-9385-z

(11) Lisciandra, C., Postma-Nilsenová, M., & Colombo, M. (2013). Conformorality. A Study on

Group Conditioning of Normative Judgment. The Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 4:

751-764. doi: 10.1007/s13164-013-0161-4

(10) Colombo, M. (2013). Moving Forward (and Beyond) the Modularity Debate. A Network

Perspective. Philosophy of Science, 80: 356-377. doi: 10.1086/670331

(9) Colombo, M. (2013). Leges Sine Moribus Vanae. Does Language Make Moral Thinking

Possible? Biology and Philosophy, 28: 501-521. doi: 10.1007/s10539-012-9346-y

(8) Colombo, M. (2013). Constitutive Relevance and the Personal/Subpersonal Distinction.

Philosophical Psychology, 26: 547-570. doi: 10.1080/09515089.2012.667623

(7) Colombo, M., & Seriès, P. (2012). Bayes in the Brain. On Bayesian Modelling in

Neuroscience. The British Journal for Philosophy of Science, 63: 697-723. doi:

10.1093/bjps/axr043

(6) Colombo, M. (2010). How ‘Authentic Intentionality’ can be enabled. A Neurocomputational

Hypothesis. Minds and Machines, 20: 183-202. doi: 10.1007/s11023-010-9192-0

(5) Colombo, M. (2009). Does Embeddedness Tell Against Computationalism? A Tale of Bees

and Sea Hares. In AISB09 Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Computing and Philosophy,

16-21.

(4) Colombo, M. (2009). Looking at the Roots of Cooperation through the Brain, and What We

Find There. In M. Gabbay (Ed.) BPPA09 Proceedings, 15-26.

(3) Colombo, M. (2009). What Can Neuroscience Offer to Economics? Humana.Mente: Journal

of Philosophical Studies, 10: 41-59. [Invited]

(2) Colombo, M. (2008). No-Brainer Predictions. Predictive Models in the Ultimatum Game.

Rerum Causae Journal of the LSE Philosophy Society, 1: 42-50.

(1) Di Francesco, M., Motterlini, M., & Colombo, M. (2007). In search of the neurobiological

basis of decision-making: Explanation, Reduction and Emergence. Functional Neurology,

22: 197-204. [Invited]

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Reviews

(10) Colombo, M. (forthcoming). Andy Clark: Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the

Embodied Mind. Oxford University Press, 2016. Minds and Machines

(9) Colombo, M. (2016). Gualtiero Piccinini: Physical Computation. A Mechanistic Account.

Oxford University Press, 2015. Minds and Machines,

(8) Colombo, M. (2016). Paco Calvo & John Symons (eds): The architecture of cognition:

rethinking Fodor and Pylyshyn’s systematicity challenge. MIT Press, 2014. Philosophical

Psychology, 29: 476-478.

(7) Colombo, M. (2015). Bryce Huebner: Macrocognition: A Theory of Distributed Minds and

Collective Intentionality. Oxford University Press, New York, 2014. Minds and Machines,

25: 103-109.

(6) Colombo, M. (2014). Pete Mandik: This is Philosophy of Mind Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.

Minds and Machines, 24: 373-376.

(5) Colombo, M. (2014). Olaf Sporns: Discovering the Human Connectome MIT Press,

Cambridge, MA, 2012. Minds and Machines, 24: 217-220.

(4) Colombo, M. (2013). Paul M. Churchland: Plato’s Camera MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,

2012. Minds and Machines, 23: 263-268.

(3) Colombo, M. (2013). Olaf Sporns: Networks of the Brain MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2011.

Minds and Machines, 23: 259-262.

(2) Colombo, M. (2010). Jan Lauwereyns: The Anatomy of Bias: How Neural Circuits Weigh

the Options. Cambridge, MA & London: MIT Press. 2010. Journal of Consciousness

Studies, 17:254-259.

(1) Colombo, M. (2006). Douglas Walton: Abductive Reasoning, Tuscaloosa, University of

Alabama Press, 2004. Review. 2R, Journal of Philosophical Reviews, 2:69-82.

Reports

(3) Colombo, M. & Irvine, L. (2013). Models and Mechanism in the Cognitive Sciences.

Workshop, 6-7 December 2012 Tilburg. The Reasoner, 7, 1:8.

(2) Colombo, M. (2011). BSPS Annual Conference 2011. 7-8 July, Sussex University. The

Reasoner, 5, 8:130.

(1) Colombo, M. & Irvine, L. (2011). Models and Mechanism in the Cognitive Sciences.

Workshop, 29 June 2011 Edinburgh. The Reasoner, 5, 8(August 2011):129-30.

GRANTS & AWARDS

2014 Research grant: € 209,500.

Used to hire a postdoctoral researcher (Dr Naftali Weinberger) for two years.

Project “Bridging Causal and Explanatory Reasoning. Normative and Empirical

Considerations.” (PI with Jan Sprenger)

SPP1516 -- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)

2014 Research support grant: € 1,100

Used to visit Pittsburgh HPS

SPP1516 -- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)

2011-2012 Nominated for EUSA Teaching Award. Category: Best Course (Logic 1)

2010-2011 British Society for the Philosophy of Science Doctoral Scholarship

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Society for Applied Philosophy Scholarship (declined)

2008-2011 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Studentship

School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

2008-2010 Gray Research Scholarship

College of Humanities and Social Science, University of Edinburgh

2008-2010 Nominated for EUSA Teaching Award. Category: Best Teacher.

2008-2012 Research Support Grants, 8 x £ 500

School of Philosophy Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh

TALKS

Invited

September 2016 Bayes, brains, and the future of cognitive science

Bernstein Conference 2016

Humboldt University Berlin (DE)

June 2016 Philosophy and psychology of explanation

Naturalism colloquium.

Università La Sapienza, Roma (IT)

May 2016 Bayesian cognitive science and the nativism vs. empiricism controversy

Philosophy of Science in a Forest (Keynote speaker)

Dutch Association for Philosophy of Science (NL)

January 2016 Bayesian cognitive science and the nativism vs. empiricism controversy

Philosophy Meets Cognitive Science colloquium

Ruhr University Bochum (DE)

June 2015 Grounding the Mind/Brain Identity Theory. The case of dopamine

Ground in Biology Workshop

University of Genève (CH)

April 2015 Bayesian cognitive science and the argument from uncertainty

Modeling Minds Workshop

Radboud University (NL)

December 2014 Bayesian cognitive science, unification, and explanation

Bayes, the Mind, and the Brain Workshop

Carnegie Mellon University (US)

December 2014 Bayesian cognitive science and the nativism vs. empiricism controversy

Center for Philosophy of Science’s Lunchtime colloquium

University of Pittsburgh (US)

November 2014 Explanatory Judgment, Moral Offense and Value-Free Science. An Empirical Study

Behavioral Ethics Lab’s Seminar

University of Pennsylvania (US)

October 2014 Explanatory Judgment, Moral Offense and Value-Free Science. An Empirical Study

Department of Philosophy and Ethics Colloquium

Eindhoven University of Technology (NL)

October 2014 Bayesian Cognitive Science, Unification, and Explanation

Conference of the German Cognitive Science Society: Symposium on Predictive

Processing

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University of Tübingen (DE)

September 2014 Bayesian cognitive science, Unification and Explanation

Norms of Reasoning Workshop

Ruhr University Bochum (DE)

June 2014 Bayesian cognitive science, and the value of specialization

PhiloNeuro Seminar

University of Milan (IT)

January 2014 Bayesian Cognitive Science, Unification, and Explanation

Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy Colloquium

LMU Munich (DE)

December 2013 A Bayesian Account of Explanatory Reasoning

Explaining without Causes Workshop

University of Cologne (DE)

October 2013 Explanatory Reasoning, Moral Values, and Economic Incentives

Operationalizing Epistemic Concepts Workshop vol. II

Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (DE)

March 2013 Testing the Grammar of Explanatory Reasoning

2nd

Conference of the DFG Priority Program New Frameworks of Rationality

Schloss Etelsen (DE)

January 2013 Moral Values in Science & Science in Moral Values

Dante’s Offspring Kick-Off Meeting

Tilburg University (NL)

November 2012 Conformality: A Study on Normative Judgment and Conformity

A Workshop in honour of Stephan Hartmann

Tilburg University (NL)

September 2012 Measuring the Grammar of Explanatory Power

Operationalizing Epistemic Concepts Workshop

Aachen (DE)

November 2011 Social Conformism, and Normative Judgement as a Natural Kind

Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute Colloquium

VTC Roanoke, VA (US)

October 2011 Neural Representations. What they could be and why we need them

Donders Discussions – Foundations of Neuroscience

Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Nijmegen (NL)

Refereed

August 2016 Explanatory Value, Probability and Abductive Inference

Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

Philadelphia, PA (US)

August 2016 Sleeping beauty goes to the lab. On the psychology of self-locating belief

International Conference on Thinking

Brown University, RI (US)

June 2016 Modes of connectivity and causality in the brain.

Causality in the Sciences of the Mind and Brain.

Aarhus University (DK)

June 2016 Explanatory Pluralism: An Unrewarding Prediction Error for Free Energy Theorists

First Principles in Science

LMU Munich (DE)

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November 2015 Experimental philosophy of explanation rising.

50 shapes of scientific explanation

Ghent University (BE)

September 2015 Desiring predictions… Humean Motivation and Predictive Processing.

Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association

University of Dusseldorf (DE)

July 2015 Why build a virtual brain?

Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

Pasadena, CA (US)

July 2015 Explanatory Value and Probabilistic Reasoning. An update

The British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference

University of Manchester (UK)

June 2015 Graded Causation and Explanatory Power, Explicated Probabilistically

Causal and Probabilistic Reasoning Conference

LMU Munich (DE)

May 2015 Explanatory Value and Probabilistic Reasoning. An update

Explanation and Abduction Conference

Ghent University (BE)

January 2015 Mystery, Explanation, and Credence

Dutch-Flemish Association for Analytic Philosophy Conference

Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL)

September 2014 Mystery, Explanation, and Credence

Eighth European Congress of Analytic Philosophy

University of Bucharest (RO)

August 2014 Bayesian cognitive science, inference to the best explanatory framework, and the

value of specialization.

Cognitive Science of Science: Kazimierz Naturalist Workshop

Kazimierz Dolny Centre for Philosophical Research (PL)

July 2014 Bayesian Cognitive Science, Unification, and Explanation

The British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference

University of Cambridge (UK)

August 2013 Explanation and probabilities: an empirical study

Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association

University of Helsinki (FI)

July 2013 Bayesian Cognitive Science, Unification, and Explanation

Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society: Symposium on Constraints on

Bayesian Explanation

Humboldt University Berlin (DE)

July 2013 Deep and Beautiful. The Reward Prediction Error Hypothesis of Dopamine.

The British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference

University of Exeter (UK)

April 2013 For a Few Neurons More… On Modelling Practice in Neuroeconomics

Models and Decisions – Munich, Sydney, Tilburg Conference,

LMU Munich (DE)

November 2012 Social Rewards and Normative Learning. An Experimental Study

Fairness and Norms Workshop

Tilburg University (NL)

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November 2012 Models, Mechanisms, and Coherence

Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science Conference

University of Milano-Bicocca (IT)

August 2012 Social Rewards and Normative Learning. An Experimental Study

Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology

University of London (UK)

July 2012 For a Few Neurons More… On Modelling Practice in Neuroeconomics

The British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference

University of Stirling (UK)

December 2011 Does Language make Moral Judgement Possible?

Amsterdam Graduate Philosophy Conference

University of Amsterdam (NL)

July 2011 Conformality: A Study on Normative Judgment and Conformity

The British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference

University of Sussex (UK)

May 2011 Conformorality: A Study on Normative Judgment and Conformity

Symposium of the Centre Cognition, Logic and Communication

University of Latvia (LV)

June 2010 Nichols’s Rule Sentimentalism and Moral Particularism

Open Minds V

University of Manchester (UK)

April 2010 Are Emotions the Ultimate Motives of Social Norm Compliance?

3rd Sydney-Tilburg conference The Future of Philosophy of Science

Tilburg University (NL)

October 2009 Does the Brain Work that Way?

Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association

Free University Amsterdam (NL)

September 2009 Looking at the Roots of Cooperation through the Brain, and What We Find There

Société de Philosophie Analytique International Congress

University of Genève (CH)

August 2009 Do Emotions Motivate Social Norm Compliance?

Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology

Central European University Budapest (HU)

July 2009 Looking at the Roots of Cooperation through the Brain, and What We Find There

British Postgraduate Philosophy Association

King’s College London (UK)

July 2009 Authentic Intentionality: A Path along Neurocomputationalism

European Conference on Computing and Philosophy

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES)

April 2009 Does Embeddedness Tell Against Computationalism? A Tale of Bees and Sea Hares

AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy

Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (UK)

Internal

November 2016 Commentary on ‘Bayesian markets to elicit private information’

by by Aurélien Baillon

EIPE-TiLPS colloquium

Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL)

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December 2015 Sleeping beauty goes to the lab

TiLPS Epistemology and Philosophy of Science Research Seminar Tilburg University (NL)

January 2015 Explanatory Value and Probabilistic Reasoning. An update

TiLPS Epistemology and Philosophy of Science Research Seminar Tilburg University (NL)

September 2014 Bayesian Cognitive Science, Uncertainty and the Value of Specialization

TiLPS Epistemology and Philosophy of Science Research Seminar Tilburg University (NL)

February 2014 Commentary on ‘Understanding through counterfactual analysis modelling’

by Philippe Verreault-Julien

EIPE-TiLPS Biannual Workshop

Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL)

December 2013 Mystery, Explanation, and Credence (With Dominik Klein)

TiLPS Epistemology and Philosophy of Science Research Seminar

Tilburg University (NL)

November 2013 Explanatory Judgement, Moral Values, and Economic Incentives

TiLPS Epistemology and Philosophy of Science Research Seminar

Tilburg University (NL)

April 2013 Deep and Beautiful. The Reward Prediction Error Hypothesis of Dopamine

TiLPS Epistemology and Philosophy of Science Research Seminar

Tilburg University (NL)

October 2012 Moving Forward (and Beyond) the Modularity Debate. A Network Perspective

TiLPS Epistemology and Philosophy of Science Research Seminar

Tilburg University (NL)

March 2012 Social Rewards and Normative Learning. An Experimental Study

PPIG Meeting

University of Edinburgh (UK)

May 2011 Representational Hunger Strikes Again!

Mind & Cognition Workshop

University of Edinburgh (UK)

October 2010 Personal, Subpersonal and Constitutive

Philosophy WiP Seminar

University of Edinburgh (UK)

July 2010 Tipping, Queuing, Avenging and other Social Habits. Norm Compliance: A

Neurocomputational Exploration (Poster Presentation)

Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality

Max Planck Institute for Human Development (DE)

June 2010 Uncertainty and Normative Judgement

Philosophy WiP Seminar

University of Edinburgh (UK)

November 2009 Prinzian Sentimentalism: A Critique

Philosophy WiP Seminar

University of Edinburgh (UK)

May 2009 Leges Sine Moribus Vanae. On Language and Norm-Hungriness

Mind & Cognition Workshop I

University of Edinburgh (UK)

May 2009 Do Emotions Motivate Social Norm Compliance?

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Philosophy WiP Seminar

University of Edinburgh (UK)

June 2007 Neuroeconomics. A pluralistic approach

Evolution, Culture and Cognition Workshop

San Raffaele University, Milan (IT)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Tilburg University

Spring 2017 Course organizer and lecturer

Moral Reasoning and Decision Making (Masters)

Course organizer and lecturer

Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science (Bachelor)

Course organizer and co-lecturer

Experimental Philosophy (Upper-level bachelor)

Autumn 2016 Course organizer and lecturer

Social Epistemology and Group Agency (Masters)

Course organizer and co-lecturer

Philosophy of Science for International Business Administration (Bachelor)

Spring 2016 Course organizer and lecturer

Moral Reasoning and Decision Making (Masters)

Course organizer and lecturer

Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science (Bachelor)

Autumn 2015 Course organizer and lecturer

Social Epistemology and Group Agency (Masters)

Course organizer and co-lecturer

Experimental Philosophy (Upper-level bachelor)

Course organizer and co-lecturer

Philosophy of Science for International Business Administration (Bachelor)

Spring 2015 Course organizer and lecturer

Moral Reasoning and Decision Making (Masters)

Course organizer and lecturer

Philosophy of Science (Bachelor)

Autumn 2014 Course co-organizer and lecturer

Social Epistemology and Group Agency (Masters)

Spring 2014 Course organizer and lecturer

Rational Decision-making (Masters)

Spring 2013 Course organizer and lecturer

Decisions & Deliberation in the Moral Realm (Upper-level bachelor)

November 2012 Guest lecturer

The Demarcation Problem

University of Edinburgh

February 2012 Guest Lecturer (cycle of two classes for master students in Computational

Cognitive Neuroscience)

The Neuroeconomics of Keynesian “Beauty Contests”

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Spring 2012 Tutor – Logic 1 (pre-honours)

March 2011 Guest Lecturer (cycle of two classes for master students in Computational

Cognitive Neuroscience)

Value-Based Decision-Making

February 2010 Guest lecturer (cycle of two classes for master students in Computational

Cognitive Neuroscience)

What’s the point of Neuroeconomics?

Spring 2009 Tutor – Morality, Rationality and Value (pre-honours)

Autumn 2009/ Autumn 2010 Tutor – Mind, Matter and Language (pre-honours)

2008 – 2009 Tutor – Introduction to Philosophy (pre-honours)

Università di Milano, Bicocca

March 2007 Guest Lecturer (cycle of two classes for master students in Psychology and

Communication)

Relevance Theory. Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Departmental service

2013-present Organizer of Epistemology and Philosophy of Science colloquia

TiLPS, Tilburg University

2013-present Search committee for various posts at various levels

(PhD, Postdoc, Assistant Professor, and Full Professor)

Department of Philosophy and TiLPS, Tilburg University

2016 Teaching mentor for new colleagues seeking a Basic Teaching Qualification (BKO)

2014-2016 Management team

Department of Philosophy, Tilburg University

Conference & workshop organisation

10-12 Jun 2015 Munich-Sydney-Tilburg conference: “Objectivity in Science” - TiLPS

Local organizing committee

Partially funded by KNAW for € 3,200

12-13 Dec 2013 1st Tilburg-Nijmegen-Antwerp Mind & Cognition Workshop - TiLPS

Organizer with Dr Monica Meijsing

6-7 Dec 2012 Models, Mechanisms and Scientific Explanation - TiLPS

Organizer with Dr Liz Irvine

Funded by the NWO Internationalisation grant (2010-2012)

29 Jun 2011 Models and Mechanism in the Cognitive Sciences - University of Edinburgh

Organizer with Dr Liz Irvine

Funded by the Mind Association

15 Mar 2010 Graduate Workshop in Mind & Cognition DoGs II - University of Edinburgh

Funded by the Scots Phil Society

11 May 2009 Graduate Workshop in Mind & Cognition DoGs I - University of Edinburgh.

Funded by PPLS Training & Development Grant Scheme

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Refereeing work

Research proposals: NSF (USA);

Journals: Behavioral and Brain Sciences; Brain and Cognition; Cognitive Science; Consciousness and

Cognition; Episteme; Erkenntnis; Frontiers in Psychology; Journal for General Philosophy of Science;

Mind; Mind & Language; Minds and Machines; Neuroscience of Consciousness Phenomenology and Mind;

Philosophia; Philosophical Psychology; Philosophy of Science; PLOS ONE; Res Philosophica; Philosophy

& Technology; Social Neuroscience; Synthese; The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science; The

Review of Philosophy and Psychology

Books: Synthese Library;

Conferences: CogSci16; CogSci15; CogSci14; CogSci13; Canadian Philosophical Association;

Programme Committee: ECAP9—LMU Munich; Descartes Lectures16—TiLPS, Tilburg; SRSSP2015,

SRSSP2014—San Raffaele University, Milan; Explanation Beyond Causation 2014—MCMP, Munich.

Jury member: Best poster prize at the Perspectives on human probabilistic inference workshop 2014—

Lorentz Center, Leiden;

Outreach

2016 Lecture on “Race and gender” for high school students in Tilburg

[A day-long event aimed at engaging students with diverse backgrounds in the Tilburg area]

2015 Speaker at “Scepticism seminar” for philosophy teachers in secondary schools in Tilburg.

[A day-long public event aimed at a teachers in secondary schools]

2015 Program committee for “Tilburg - Dag van de Filosofie, 2015: Inequality”

[A day-long public event aimed at a non-academic audience]

2007-2008 Collaborator of M. Motterlini, Trappole Mentali, Rizzoli, Milano, 2008

[A trade book on cognitive biases, translated into Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese]

Professional membership

2013- Cognitive Science Society

2010- British Society for the Philosophy of Science

2009- European Society for Philosophy of Science

2008- CRESA (Center for Experimental and Applied Epistemology).

San Raffaele University, Milan (IT)

2005- Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy

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REFERENCES

Prof Andy Clark School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language

Sciences

University of Edinburgh

[email protected]

Prof Stephan Hartmann Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy

Ludwig Maximilians-Universität München

[email protected]

Prof Edouard Machery Department of History and Philosophy of Science

University of Pittsburgh

[email protected]

Dr Peggy Seriès Institute for Adaptive & Neural Computation

University of Edinburgh

[email protected]

Prof Jan Sprenger Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science

Tilburg University

[email protected]

Dr Mark Sprevak School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language

Sciences

University of Edinburgh

[email protected]